Growing with capital markets

Growing with capital markets

According to Andy Volz, COO of Clear Street, current market conditions make decisive moves like its acquisition of React—as well as other expansionary initiatives—particularly strategic.

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Shifting data ops with Symphony

Shifting data ops with Symphony

According to Brad Levy, CEO of Symphony, current technological conditions are what allow solutions like Symphony’s to succeed.

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Scaling solutions for capital markets

Scaling solutions for capital markets

Blending tech, branding, and compliance, fintechs successfully scaling in this space solve for three variables.

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Fintech solutions for capital markets

Fintech solutions for capital markets

Fintechs and other tech players have helped drive changes to capital markets, leading to major transformations across three key variables.

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Marketing three times with Percent

Marketing three times with Percent

According to Jessica Zall, Chief Marketing Officer at Percent, the startup is unique from other private-credit and fundraising platforms by bringing all three market participants together—underwriters, borrowers, and investors—and not just a subset thereof.

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Inclusion through financing with Taulia

Inclusion through financing with Taulia

To Danielle Weinblatt, Taulia’s Chief Product Officer, the company’s products—both current and upcoming—help address acute macroeconomic needs and help build a more inclusive economy.

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Modernizing municipal bonds with BondLink

Modernizing municipal bonds with BondLink

As a software solution connecting municipal bond issuers with investors, BondLink faces unique sales challenges, especially given its role in building both the supply and demand sides of a market.

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Building infrastructure for private credit with Percent

Building infrastructure for private credit with Percent

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Nelson Chu describes Percent’s dual-pronged approach and outlines a promising future for private credit in a downturn.

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Hedge fund eyeing PayPal after stock plummets

Hedge fund eyeing PayPal after stock plummets

According to the Wall Street Journal, Elliott Management, a $50B hedge fund, is considering an activist-investor takeover of PayPal. PayPal’s valuation has slid from $350B to $89B over the past year.

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Crypto hedge fund defaults on $670M loan

Crypto hedge fund defaults on $670M loan

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has failed to make payment on a loan issued by crypto broker Voyager Digital. This marks the largest institutional crash of the current “crypto winter.”

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Outsourcing the front office with Northern Trust

Outsourcing the front office with Northern Trust

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Gary Paulin, Head of Global Strategic Solutions at Northern Trust, argues that the future of the front office rhymes with the cloud-computing landscape. He envisions an ecosystem of partnerships built around a client’s value chains, which, he asserts, would offer all firms the opportunity to compete with the fund manager giants.

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Citigroup commits to “digital explosion”

Citigroup commits to “digital explosion”

Jonathan Lofthouse, Head of Markets and Enterprise Risk Technology, said Citigroup plans to hire more than 4,000 tech workers to help digitize services for institutional clients.

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Fully digital capital markets with Clear Street

Fully digital capital markets with Clear Street

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, and a week after Clear Street’s $165M Series B announcement—making the company a unicorn—Bailey details the market gap Clear Street tackles, explains why capital markets have been slow to modernize, and outlines how new technology can level the playing field between large and small players.

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How might Roe v. Wade’s overturning affect finance?

How might Roe v. Wade’s overturning affect finance?

A draft majority opinion leaked by Politico suggests the Supreme Court will overturn reproductive rights as they are enshrined in Roe v. Wade. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Supreme Court Justice Alito writes.

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Bank shareholders vote down climate-change proposals

Proposals at annual shareholder meetings for Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo would have pushed management to curb lending for projects in oil and gas. The proposals received between 11% and 12.8% votes in favor.

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